Job Description
Your Duties:
1. To conduct your duties in a manner that safeguards your own safety and the safety of others.
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3. Making sure that everything you do complies with company procedures for Health & Safety, Food Safety and Hygiene.
4. Approving in-process production by confirming specifications; conducting visual and measurement tests; communicating required adjustments to your Quality Supervisor and or Production supervisor.
5. Approving finished products by confirming specifications; conducting visual and measurement tests; returning products for re-work; confirming re-work.
6. Completing paperwork and records of checks carried out, including weight checks, temperature checks, label checks, metal detection and where required checkweigher checks.
7. Ensuring any Internal and Supplier Non-Conformances are communicated through the Daily Quality Reports.
8. Keeping measurement equipment operating by following operating instructions and highlighting the need for repairs.
9. Supporting the production team and ensuring the prevention of use of sub-standard ingredients and the prevent of poor quality or potentially unsafe product leaving site.
10. Supporting the NPD and Production teams during production trials.
11. Reporting issues to the quality manager/ supervisor that may result in compromised food safety, food legality or quality of our products.
12. To carry out any other reasonable working instruction given by your Quality Supervisor, Quality Manager and Technical Manager.
Desired Criteria:
13. Excellent communicator - both written and oral.
14. Highly energetic, enthusiastic, and creative.
15. Excellent planning and organising skills.
16. IT Literate.
17. Experience working within a Quality Department within a food industry
Requirements
Maintenance of electrical and mechanical equipment. Factory maintenance and repairs (60% Mechanical 40% Electrical). Provide mechanical support to all factory machines, conveyors, labellers, scales, and process equipment. Conduct routine inspections and carry out PPM and breakdown response. Work closely with all departments to minimise downtime. Site service and facilities maintenance when required. Fault diagnostics and rectification. Breakdown Response. Achieve set targets, both individual and team. Complete all the necessary documentation for the Engineering department. Keen eye for detail and strong experience in preventative maintenance. Perform all activities in accordance with Food, Health & Safety regulations. Ensure an effective handover between shifts. To observe, recognise and report component defects and impending failures. Carry out machine adjustments and changeover. Skills and Qualifications Experience with hydraulic, pneumatics, conveyor systems, pumps, gearboxes etc. Electrical Qualifications an advantage (City & Guilds). Process plant and filler/packaging machinery experience desirable as well as experience in factory environment. HMI/PLC programming, working knowledge an advantage.